Signatures

Organisations

44 organisations have signed up to show their support

Save Greater Manchesters GreenbeltOctober 27, 2020, 7:01 pm
We are a regional umbrella group campaigning to save green belt and green space across Greater Manchester. The White Paper Planning for the Future (PftF) moves away from planning based on evidence and is not fit for purpose, it puts the interests of landowners and developers before the community and is an end to community participation and the promise of a democratic planning system.
Friends of Carrington MossOctober 27, 2020, 5:42 pm
Thank you for developing this People’s Charter. It is much needed. It is time our collective voices are heard. If a Climate Emergency has been declared by a public body, it should not be able to be ignored. All planning applications should have consideration of the CE at the heart of the proposals. Citizens should be a key stakeholder in every planning application – not an afterthought. Citizens’ Advocates should be appointed to ensure the focus is on what citizens need – not on developer profits! In addition, communities should have the same right of access to public funds to raise challenges as Local Authorities do! As things stand, we have to raise money through donations, this is not the case for Local Authorities or Developers.
Brighton and Hove Clarion Cycling ClubOctober 26, 2020, 9:57 am
Transport Action NetworkOctober 22, 2020, 6:14 pm
Fews Lane ConsortiumOctober 22, 2020, 10:05 am
The planning system in England is predicated upon democratic accountability—accountability that be maintained, and indeed strengthened, in any changes to the planning process.
National Federation of Parks and Green SpacesOctober 21, 2020, 3:44 pm
We are the umbrella organisation for the movement of over 7,000 local Friends of Parks Groups throughout the UK, all of whom are entitled to have a real say over anything which affects their local public green space or local community
Aylestone Park Residents GroupOctober 20, 2020, 10:45 am
It will erode what little rights we have under the current planning process.
Rights: Community: ActionOctober 19, 2020, 12:02 pm
Our planning system is under threat. Planning matters because it gives us rights and powers over what happens in our communities. Given the public health and climate change crises, now is the time to make sure we have a system that works for the public interest.
Leicester Friends of the EarthOctober 18, 2020, 4:47 pm
Sheffield Friends of the EarthOctober 16, 2020, 8:04 pm
It is so important that we preserve local democratic control over planning decisions and ensure that environmental issues have key priority

Individuals

363 individuals have signed up to show their support

Lesley DaniellOctober 19, 2020, 5:02 pm
Callie ListerOctober 19, 2020, 3:48 pm
We desperately need planning to be more democratic, not less, so that local communities can be invested in ensuring development meets local needs and reflects the imperative for real sustainability
David BarnsOctober 19, 2020, 1:54 pm
Artur ZarembaOctober 19, 2020, 1:38 pm
Richard AllsopOctober 19, 2020, 1:26 pm
Anne HaytoOctober 19, 2020, 12:12 pm
I have been involved in fighting inappropriate development in the past (and been on the winning side) but the latest planning proposals remove the rights of citizens to have a meaningful voice regarding the planning process. This imposition of arbitrary planning rules will be anti-democratic and will be disastrous for the environment, for sustainable and affordable housing in the right places and for communities. Think again government.
Georgina SearOctober 19, 2020, 8:09 am
Herbert Eppel CEnv CEngOctober 19, 2020, 7:26 am
Susan EppelOctober 19, 2020, 7:20 am
All the glossy brochures in the world do not compensate for proper democracy for local people. There appears to be some kind of rush to get the Planning White Paper through which is worrying in itself. The right words are often used such as sustainability and climate change, protection of nature etc without the ‘HOW’. The people elect Governments – please listen to them.
Amanda SeimsOctober 16, 2020, 6:45 pm
Poor planning has harmed communities, reduced valuable green space and created car-dependent suburbs. We can and must do better.